“It’s like last time.
» The leader of La France insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon promised this Sunday "union" after the Europeans if Manon Aubry's list arrives at the head of the left, affirming his ambition to "beat the Macronists and follow on the heels of the RN".
“If we are clearly ahead, we will come, we will tell them ‘my darlings, it’s like last time, we must unite’”, he added on France 3, addressing the parties with whom he created the Nupes after the 2022 presidential election, the socialists, the ecologists and the communists.
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“How do we go about it?
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Convinced that the Insoumis are "capable of uniting, while the only thing they are capable of doing is division", he hoped that "the French left would punish them" for have each made a separate list for the European deadline.
The Insoumis hoped until the end for a common list, of which they were ready not to take the lead.
“Don't worry, the next day I'll do like last time, we'll tell everyone 'come back here, okay, do you understand?
We have a program together, we can do things.
How do we go about winning the presidential election?'
» of 2027, he explained.
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Conversely, if the list of Insoumis, now credited in the polls at around 7%, does not come out on top, the left risks "returning to the center-left", he worried.
And if Raphaël Glucksmann, head of the PS-Place publique list, “comes to the top”, in 2027, “he will be a candidate alongside at least two ecologists and at least two socialists, plus a communist, that means chaos” , predicted Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
“If people on the left vote for us, there will be a union,” he insisted, “if they don’t vote for us, there will be no union.”
Asked about his own candidacy in 2027, Jean-Luc Mélenchon evaded: “we are preparing several hypotheses, I am one of the hypotheses, everyone knows that”.